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AS Sociology Education - Key Terms
- Hidden Curriculum.
- All things learnt
without being formally
taught - often aquired
simply through the
everyday working of the
schol, such as attitudes,
obiedience and
competitiveness.
- Cultural Capital
- The knowledge,
attitudes, values,
language, taste
and abilities that
the middle class
transmit to their
children.
- Corrospondence Principle
- Bowles and Gintis'
concept describing
the way
organisation and
control of schools
mirrors the
workplace in
capitalist society
- Compensatory
Education
- Government education
policies such as Operation
Headstart, that seek to tackle
the problem of
underachievement by
providing extra support and
funding to schools and
families in deprived areas
- Tripartide
System
- The system of secondary
education created in 1944,
based on 3 types of schools.
The 11+ exam was used to
identify pupils abilities. Those
identified as the most
acedemic went to grammar
schools, some went to
technical schools and the rest
went to secondary modern
schools.
- Streaming
- Streaming Where children are seperated into
different ability groups or classes and then
each ability group is taught seperatly
- Stratification
- The division of society into a hierachy
of unequal groups. The inequalities
may be of wealth, power and status.
The members of different groups may
have different life chances.
- Self - fulfilling prophecy
- Where the prediction made about a
person or group comes true simply
because it is made. In predicting that
some pupils will do badly, teachers
will treat them in line with these low
expectations. This will discourage the
pupils from trying, making the
prediction true.
- Ethnocentric
- Seeing, judgeing something in a
biased way from the view point of a
certain culture. Eg, the national
curriculum is said to be ethnocontric,
hence the difference in ethnicity and
success in education.
- Immediate
Gratification
- A prefference for immediate pleasure or
reward without regard for the longer term
consequences. A value of lower class
society.
- Labelling
- The process of attatching a
definition or meaning to an
individual or group. Often the label
is a stereotype that defines all
members of a group in the same
way.
- Marketisation
- The policy of introducing market
forces of supply and demand into
areas run by the sate such as
education. The 1988 Education
Reform Act began the
markitisation of education by
encouraging compotition between
schools and choice of parents.
- Material deprevation
- Poverty, a lack of the basic
needs such as an adequate
diet, housing, clothing or
money to buy these things. In
education this explains
working class
underachievement as the
result of the lack of resources.
- Meritocracy
- An education or social system where everyone has an
equal oppertunity to succeed, and where the individuals
rewards and status are by their own effirt and hard work
rather than ascribed to them by society.
- Myth of Meritocracy
- Bowles and Gintis claims that
meritocray in an ideology
legitamising inequality by falsly
claiming everyone has equal
chance ansd unequal rewards are
the natural result of unequal
ability.
- Deffered Gratification
- Postpronning immediate rewards or
pleasures, generally with the aim of
producing a greater reward at a later date.
This is seen as a characteristic of middle class
culture.